In addition to his wife's public travails, Mexico's Vincente Fox recently was recently caught out in an akward position: the braceros raised the stakes to get further attention to their cause....

The First Couple of Mexico has been in the news lately, both in ways that I'm sure they rather not be. I'll talk about Marta Sahagún de Fox, the First Lady, because -after all- etiquette requires ladies first:...

As a transition from previous posts about Mexico that were just about immigration, I thought it might be worthwhile to take a look at chilango (and elsewhere in the country) developments of the past week. A quick look then, at the week in cross-border issues, political realignment, and doughnuts, all...

A quick follow-up to the previous post on the Bush administration's announced proposal to allow illegal immigrants in the US to register as temporary workers shows that the proposal has been received with some skepticism....

The New York Times and the Washington Post both have front page articles unveiling Bush's new temporary worker plan to document illegal immigrants. If you listen quietly, you can hear Vincente Fox dancing with joy....

The BBC Brasil site is reporting this morning about a large march on the streets of Mexico City. Thousands of trade unionists, peasants and activists were marching against the Fox government's proposed reforms, including the planned privatisation of the electricity sector and the imposition of a value-added tax (IVA). The...